Screw up game balance and fix bugs by creating more bugs. Now you too can join the discussion. This is where the magic happens. Sometimes actual magic.
Right now, we have an issue where passing an old character to the new code mantains everything BUT the flavor text, I will give it a try and see if I can code in a workaround before we hit Saturday 26.
Is there any real reason to be doing this? I'm not porting the /data folder outside of bans. That means all your character saves are lost anyway. Save your characters and rewrite them. The server needs cleanup anyway.